August 2007
Student Will Not Be Jailed Over Images of Children
A student who was convicted of downloading indecent photographs and films of children has been spared jail.
Oskar Joseph Majhi, aged 20, of Race Hill in Launceston, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court before Judge Paul Darlow QC this week.
Majhi had denied nine counts of making of making indecent images of children and one further count of possessing indecent images of children.
Majhi sobbed as prosecution recounted how 460 illegal and indecent photos and movies had been found on the hard drive of his computer.
At his trial last month, he said that other people at his student accommodation in Plymouth must have downloaded the images. However the jury convicted him on all ten counts.
The photos and movies were discovered after police stormed his house in a bomb hoax threat email was sent to the FBI in 2006. Police also discovered class A drugs as well as two cannabis plants at his address in North Road West in Plymouth
He was subsequently suspended from his course at Plymouth college of art and design
The images found were in various levels of indecency, some of the more recently downloaded movies were at level 5 – the most serious and indecent – which depicted sadism and rape of young children
